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Addiction treatment, bare-bones style

Charging high fees without guaranteeing access to evidence-based care is common in the addiction treatment industry

Salon

They openly ripped off Medicare

Health plans will be allowed to pocket hundreds of millions of dollars in overcharges for audits before 2018

Salon

A baby spent 36 days in an in-network NICU. Why did the hospital next door send a bill?

Brenna Kearney was seven months pregnant in December 2019 when she experienced what she thought were bad flu symptoms.

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Nursing home owners drained cash while residents deteriorated, state filings suggest

As the U.S. government debates whether to require higher staffing levels at nursing homes, financial records show some owners routinely push profits to sister companies while residents are neglected.

WEKU

Chicago mom fought Lurie Children’s Hospital for 3 years to get overbilling for newborn reversed

Illinois law bars insurers from charging out-of-network rates for neonatal care at in-network hospitals. But that didn’t keep it from happening to Brenna Kearney and her husband Casey Trumble. Only a reporter’s questions got things fixed.

Chicago Sun-Times

A baby spent 36 days at an in-network hospital. Why did her parents get a huge bill?

A family had more than $12,000 in medical bills they couldn't explain after their baby was delivered early. It turns out the doctors who cared for her worked at a different, out-of-network hospital.

WEKU

Did your health plan rip off Medicare?

Previously secret government audits reveal millions of dollars in overpayments to Medicare Advantage health plans

Salon

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Our system is failing foster children

The failures of insurers in providing for foster children are widespread and occur largely without public scrutiny

Salon

Staffing crunches in nursing homes

Nursing home closures largely stem from a shortage of workers, including nurses and nursing assistants

Salon

When gun violence ends young lives, these men prepare the graves

Just outside St. Louis, a cemetery for children sits on a hill. A wooden, weather-worn sign welcomes mourners to "Baby Land." The gravediggers who made the special spot work quietly in the shadows.

WEKU

Doctors and patients are sold on telehealth. Congress is still unsure about its long-term future

A recent $1.7 trillion spending package included a funding extension for remote medicine—through 2024.

Fortune

In Decatur, it’s taking more than Buffett family $30 million to make addiction-treatment center work

DECATUR — The question came out of the blue, or so it seemed to Crossing Healthcare CEO Tanya Andricks: If you had $30 million to design an addiction-treatment facility, how would you do it?

Chicago Sun-Times

Wave of rural nursing home closures grows amid staffing crunch

WAUKON, Iowa — Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she would have to leave the nursing home where she’d lived comfortably for six years.

Tribune News Service

Unmet needs: Critics cite failures in health care for vulnerable foster children

One night last month, a 9-year-old boy who had autism and talked about killing himself was among about 70 foster care children and youth under state supervision sleeping in hotels across Georgia.

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Latino teens provide education on covid

California high schoolers are playing an important role in encouraging those in their community to get vaccinated

Tribune News Service

NFL has been slow to embrace mental health support for players

When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field in the middle of the “Monday Night Football” game in Cincinnati on Jan. 2, Carrie Hastings, half a continent away, understood what she needed to do — and right away.

Salon

Abortion debate ramps up in states

In a post-Roe world, anti-abortion advocates are pressing for expanded abortion bans and more restrictions

Tribune News Service

Abortion debate ramps up in states as Congress deadlocks

Anti-abortion advocates are pressing for expanded abortion bans and tighter restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion. But with the debate mostly deadlocked in Washington, the focus is shifting to states convening their first full legislative sessions since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

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Salon

NFL hesitant on mental health support

The league is working its way toward accessible mental health support for its players, coaches, and staff

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A $30 million gift to build an addiction treatment center. Then staffers had to run it

DECATUR, Ill. — The question came out of the blue, or so it seemed to Crossing Healthcare CEO Tanya Andricks: If you had $30 million to design an addiction treatment facility, how would you do it?

Salon

UC Health's ties to religious hospitals

UC's health system is renewing contracts with hundreds of outside clinics — many with religious affiliations

Salon

Seniors benefit from remote fitness boom

Virtual classes offer opportunities for supervised physical activity that were rare before the pandemic

Salon

Drugmakers sued over insulin prices

California's Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the six major companies that dominate the U.S. insulin market

Salon

Pregnancy-related nausea undertreated

Often, the condition is misunderstood or downplayed by doctors or the patients themselves

Salon

Health care investors convene in SF

Health care’s business class returned to San Francisco last week for JPMorgan’s annual health care confab

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